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  2. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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    Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, ... For example, Rembrandt's prints are usually referred to as "etchings" for convenience, ...

  3. Intaglio (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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    The plate's ground side is then dipped into acid, or the acid poured onto it. The acid bites into the surface of the plate where it was exposed. Biting is a printmaking term to describe the acid's etching, or incising, of the image; its duration depends on the acid strength, metal's reactivity, temperature, air pressure and the depth desired. [8]

  4. Linocut - Wikipedia

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    Using a handheld gouger to cut a design into linoleum for a linocut print Linocut printing; using a design cut into linoleum to make a print on paper. Since the material being carved has no directional grain and does not tend to split, it is easier to obtain certain artistic effects with lino than with most woods, although the resultant prints lack the often angular grainy character of ...

  5. Aquatint - Wikipedia

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    Goya, No. 32 of Los Caprichos (1799, Por que fue sensible).This is a fairly rare example of a print entirely in aquatint. [5]In intaglio printmaking techniques such as engraving and etching, the artist makes marks into the surface of the plate (in the case of aquatint, a copper or zinc plate) that are capable of holding ink.

  6. Mezzotint - Wikipedia

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    The mezzotint printmaking method was invented by the German soldier and amateur artist Ludwig von Siegen (1609 – c. 1680). His earliest mezzotint print dates to 1642 and is a portrait of Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, regent for her son, and von Siegen's employer. This was made by working from light to dark.

  7. Category:Printmaking - Wikipedia

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    Printmaking is the making of a work of art by transferring ink from the surface upon which the work was originally drawn or otherwise composed to another surface. The main article for this category is Printmaking .

  8. Etching - Wikipedia

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    Hopfer was a craftsman who decorated armour in this way, and applied the method to printmaking, using iron plates (many of which still exist). Apart from his prints, there are two proven examples of his work on armour: a shield from 1536 now in the Real Armeria of Madrid and a sword in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg.

  9. State (printmaking) - Wikipedia

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    In printmaking, a state is a different form of a print, caused by a deliberate and permanent change to a matrix such as a copper plate (for engravings etc.) or woodblock (for woodcut). Artists often take prints from a plate (or block, etc.) and then do further work on the plate before printing more impressions (copies).